Package: dpkg Version: 1.4.0.23.2 (i386 elf) dpkg reports a .deb file is corrupted, while I'm certain it isn't I downloaded the file from different places and in different ways (Netscape and binary ftp). The locations I tried are: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/proposed-updates/netstd_3.07-2hamm.4_i386.deb
ftp://ftp.cistron.nl/pub/debian/stable/binary-i386/net/netstd_3.07-2hamm.2.deb Here's a transcript: > tweety:/usr/src# dpkg -i netstd_3_07-2hamm_4_i386.deb > dpkg-deb: file looks like it might be an archive which has been > dpkg-deb: corrupted by being downloaded in ASCII mode > dpkg-deb: `netstd_3_07-2hamm_4_i386.deb' is not a debian format archive > dpkg: error processing netstd_3_07-2hamm_4_i386.deb (--install): > subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2 > Errors were encountered while processing: > netstd_3_07-2hamm_4_i386.deb > I use Linux 2.0.34 and libc-2.0.7.so.

